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- Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly – Daily update: 30 May 2024
Lack of availability and equitable access to transplantation may lead to death or unethical or illegal practices such as transplant tourism and organ trafficking The resolution aims to improve the availability of transplantation, especially in countries with limited resources
- A seventh case of HIV cure reported at AIDS 2024
The new case (1) presented at AIDS 2024 is a 60-year-old German man living with HIV who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia and underwent a blood stem cell transplant in 2015 from a donor with the CCR5-delta 32 mutation
- First case of HIV cure in a woman after stem cell transplantation . . .
The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trial Network (IMPAACT) P1107 reported the first case of HIV cure in a woman living with HIV submitted to a dual stem cell transplant (i e , an umbilical cord blood transplant combined with a half-matched bone marrow) for treatment of an acute myelogenous leukemia
- WHO guiding principles on human cell, tissue and organ transplantation
WHO guiding principles on human cell, tissue and organ transplantation - as endorsed by the sixty-third World Health Assembly in May 2010, in Resolution WHA63 22
- Call for Experts: Expert Advisory Panel Committee on Donation and . . .
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking experts to serve as members of the Expert Advisory Panel Committee on Donation and Transplantation of cells, tissues and organs (ECDT) This “Call for experts” provides information about the advisory committee in question, the expert profiles being sought, the process to express interest, and the process of selection
- Advancing cancer prevention and care in Kyrgyzstan: steps on a new road
The establishment of specialized paediatric oncology units in Bishkek and Osh, the alignment of clinical protocols with international standards, the first bone marrow transplant, and the establishment of the Society of Paediatric Oncologists and Haematologists in 2024 all mark important milestones on the way to improving survival rates for
- Regional Director calls for organ donation and transplantation to be . . .
Inaugurating a regional workshop on Advancing Organ Transplant, Regional Director Ms Saima Wazed called for realizing the full potential of these lifesaving interventions
- Papua New Guinea Launches Health Partnership with Australia and WHO
Dr Piukala commended Minister Kapavore for his leadership, including recent milestones such as the national ban on e-cigarettes, the country’s first successful kidney transplant, and WHO’s validation of PNG eliminating trachoma as a public health problem
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